On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:43:05 +0100, Scott White wrote: > Does anybody know of a USB soundcard for Linux that will allow one to > watch movies with Dolby Digital passed digitally to a surround sound > amplifier? (Happy to jump through any hoops). I believe they call this > "digital pass through"
I have one of these: Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit External Sound Card This is the exact one, here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009AHV8U/ref=pd_sr_ec_ir_ce/202-9112771-6976659 It's a USB sound card with a free remote control (quite nice and very small, shirt pocket sized - I use it with a serial receiver). I have it plugged into a Cyrus AV8 via the optical out. It works perfectly, out of the box with no effort as well. I get stereo and Dolby Digital through it from MythTV and stereo from mpd. I've even modified MythTV to pass DTS through it, a patch I'll tidy up and submit next month. My system is FC3, myth 18.1, and I set the audio output device to 'ALSA:hw:1'. Also tick the box for AC3 output. No .asoundrc file (or whatever it's called) needed. I use the 'Internal' player for mythvideo. Cheers, Martin. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
